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There are knock offs, and then there are knock offs, and Bruno Mattei’s 1989 film Shocking Dark (also released as Alienators and, yes, as Terminator 2), is a knock off. It’s also a film that takes place in the terrifying future of the year 2000. Here, Venice, Italy has been transformed
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In 1971, a young filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles would effectively kick start the 'blaxploitation' genre with his notorious full-length feature film, Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song. This was a low budget picture (finished with money borrowed from none other than Bill Cosby), which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in made completely outside of the established
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Directed by James Whale way back when in 1932 for Universal, The Old Dark House is not be as well-known as some of the other classic Universal horror pictures of the time. It'll always live in the shadow of Whale's more famous Karloff collaborations, those obviously being Frankenstein
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The second and final film to be directed by quirky business tycoon Howard Hughes, 1943's The Outlaw tells the story of notorious outlaw duo Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel in his first feature film appearance) and Doc Holliday (Walter
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Elwood (Christopher Abbott) walks into a small-town watering hole late one night, not paying much mind to the fact that it’s closed. Here he encounters three men at a table who send him away. He goes but comes back shortly after
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John Landis’ 1973 feature-length directorial debut film was…. Schlock! It’s a goofy, low budget throwback to the monster movies that so clearly had an effect on Landis as a kid and it serves as both a peek at things to come in his career and a love letter of sorts to his influences. The end result? A whole lot of fun.

Clearly inspired by films like Seven Samurai, the Zatoichi series and the Lone Wolf And Cub films, Eric Power’s 2013 animated feature Path Of Blood takes place in the feudal Japan of 1614. With no war currently being waged, scores of displaced
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The directorial debut of Thom Eberhardt (who would later direct Night Of The Comet), Sole Survivor opens with a scene where a hard drinking psychic/actress named Karla Davis (Caren Larkey) calls TV commercial producer Denise Watson (Anita Skinner) and gives her a warning about a flight
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The Italians and the Turks don’t have an exclusive on cinematic rip offs – oh no, North America has its own share of celluloid copycats, many of which are just as goofy as their foreign counterparts. Case in point? A 1989 low budget horror film named
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Henry Pinkle (Michael St. Gerard) has issues. His social worker Wendy (Maureen Teefy) tries to help him, and to an extent she does, but she can’t quite get through to him the way she wants to. Henry’s also obsessed with a TV show called The Robertson Family, so much so that
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One of the more popular superhero exports from Asia, Super Inframan (also known as Infra-Man and Chinese Superman) is a fantastic barrage of monsters and mayhem courtesy of the world famous Shaw Brothers studios. Though it's obviously inspired by the Japanese superhero television shows that were popular at the
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Written and directed by the great James Glickenhaus – the man behind The Exterminator, The Protector and McBain – 1982’s The Soldier begins when a gang of KGB operatives steal some plutonium from a top-secret
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Directed in 1967 by Shaw Brothers’ workhorse director Chang Cheh (who also co-wrote the film with frequent collaborator Ni Kuang – a writer with literally a couple of hundred credits to his name, including The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, Flag Of Iron,
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